The two texts used for our comparative analysis are “Piggybook” by Anthony Browne and “Guinea Pigs”. Both texts are extremely different in terms of their genre, language, content and grammar. Piggybook is a fictional text whereas Guinea Pigs is an information report and purely non-fictional.
Piggybook is a short fictional story about a family, their daily mundane routine and behaviour. There are four everyday human characters in it, a setting, a problem and a resolution. It has all the elements which are present in any fictional story.
The author Anthony Browne has used very simple descriptive language to describe the characters and events that are ...